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BROKSKAT GRAMMAR
N.Ramaswami
1.3. Contrasting Pairs:

1.3.1. Vowels:-

/i/ /i:/

/dis/
/di:s/

/igRo/
/i: go/

‘to give’
‘a kind of storing place
within the wall’
‘coward’
‘long’
/e/ /e:/

/beto/
/be:to/
/hekmat/
/he:kpo/
/neik/
/ne:u/

‘calf’
‘if possible’
‘courage’
‘although’
‘wonder’
‘except’
/u/ /u:/

/dut/
/du:R/
/bulum/
/bu:lo/
/usu/
/u:zi/

 

‘milk’
‘distance’
‘loan’
‘lid’
‘coriander’
‘mouth’
/o/ /o:/  

 

 

 

/tomook/
/to:mo/
/tota/
/to:ba/
/olo/
/o:laha/

‘empire’
 ‘same’
‘parrot’
‘recover’
‘dice’
'powder'
/a/ /a:/

/au/
/a:o/
/ala:i/
/a:le/
/aRbu/
/a:Rpa/

 

‘in’
‘ice’
‘cardamom’
 ‘near’
‘botton’
‘cot’
/i/ /e/

/sina/
/seno/
/sin/
/seR/

 

‘child’
 ‘small’
‘river’
‘gold’
/u/ /o/

/muli/
/mole/
/uksa/
/ok/

‘radish’
‘daughter’
‘urban’
‘all’

 

1.3.2. Consonants:-

/ph/ /p/

/pho/
/po/
/phola:t/
/polo/
/phalan/
/palki/

 

‘he’
‘part’
‘steel’
‘ball’
‘wide’
‘palanquin’
/th/ /t/

/thu:Ro/
/tu:Ri/
/this/
/ti/
/thali/
/talsiR/

 

‘skin’
‘star’
‘to do’
‘you’
‘plate’
‘ashes’
/th/ /t/

/thul/
/tus/
/thi/
/ti/

 

‘egg’
‘to shake’
‘throne’
‘tea’
/kh/ /k/

/khaRo/
/kaRi/
/khau/
/kaa/
/dokha:dis/
/doko/

 

‘blacksmith’
‘jug’
‘saliva’
‘trousers’
‘to deceive’
‘hip'
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/aRu/
/au/
/Rbu/
/aRi/
/u Rut/

 

‘rainwater’
‘bird’
‘button’
‘bed-bug’
‘waterfall’
/p/ /b/

/paRi/
/baRo/
/khapi/
/khabu/
/ula:p/
/ava:b/

 

‘there’
‘husband’
‘spoon’
‘bud’
‘dysentry’
‘answer’

       

                                       

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